Truth as a Shield and Its Moral Cost
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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1914
Page
4
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From Calumet to Washington the letter cites gunmen and courts against striking workers. The editor laments suppression by governor and police power in Michigan, while workers face abductions and poverty in midwinter. Minnie B. Frazier signs off urging reader reflection.
A jumble of modern topics and sensational lines surveys J P Morgan interlocks Ford Motor changes hours wages Seattle Chamber of Commerce strikes a note of transparency. The piece wobbles through robbery visions onion worms cackling London scientists and Hatsh(es)pu as a provocative note on equality amid a collage of 1910s headlines.
Disjointed quotations and stray remarks mingle in a chaotic clipping. References touch on Liberty statue impressions, a caterwaul and Yelp joke, a Philadelphia Inquirer line, Dr Montessori, an anonymous letter, a Western egg shipper’s claim, and an amateur commentary about hosiery and petition accessories.
A Western politician famous for baldness appears with a heavy hair growth and explains a home mixture. The recipe blends water, bay rum, Barbo Compound, and glycerine and is applied to the scalp several times weekly to promote growth, reduce dandruff, and darken gray hair.
A compilation of quirky remarks and local tidbits: a hunter’s boast in South Africa with 1300 specimens, school board visitors checking repairs, and a Monticello tragedy figure drawing theatrical offers. Also a Broadway car coin joke and a publisher’s policy on song subjects.
The diary notes that on June 30, 1837 the pillory was abolished in the United Kingdom. It describes the punishment device, a wooden frame on a stool with holes for the head and hand, and cites a case where a rotten footboard caused a man to fall, nearly killing him, who then sued the town for insufficiency.
Eureka Oklahoma January 8 1914 report that Dr J T Allen who lived 69 days on a peanut only diet has applied for the Nobel prize based on his goobers experiment A note adds a curious method for crusting an oyster shell in a kettle with goobers involved.
Frances Starr stars in The Secret by Henri Bernstein at the Belasco theatre with Basil Gill as Gabrielle’s husband and Frank Reicher as Henriette’s husband. The melodrama centers on Gabrielle a wife whose kindness masks a need to control others happiness, leading to tragedy and eventual remorse.
Detroit report says David Sutherland, longtime general agent for Michigan Central R R, died suddenly last week after half a century with the company.
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